Jenny Mollen Quotes

You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly ... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

Men have been intimidated by my relationship with Howard. You know, it's hard for them to imagine that they could be number one, seeing this relationship.

I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

Men and nations cannot bear to feel inferior.

I'm just propelled by insecurity; that's what really leads me to want to do better.

Miss India actually made me feel small.

I always have a point to prove where I have a chip on my shoulder at all times.

I used to think I was stupid and slow.

Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.

I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.

It's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.

The ladies kept telling me I wasn't good in bed, so I figured if I wasn't a lover then I must be a fighter

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.

Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.